On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Sriranga(77yrsold) <[email protected]> wrote: > I am facing problem of authentication of password. extract of terminal is > reproduced below: > > srira...@ubuntu:~$ cd tesseract-ocr-read-only-408/ > srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract- > ocr-read-only-408$ su > Password: > su: Authentication failure > srira...@ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$
Instead of su, use "sudo bash" to become root on a shell console. When prompted for password, give your own password and you should be root. regards, Nishant -- How about some patent on "(a+b)2 = a2+2ab+b2". Choose free software! http://www.nishants.net -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
